Clemenger BBDO Melbourne and the BBDO network have strongly denied claims by some Cannes jurors that its multi-awarded ‘Meet Graham’ road safety film copied a British anti-smoking ad made 32 years ago (both are here). Clemenger BBO creative chairman James ...

Mondelez-owned Cadbury is as famous for its advertising as its chocolate but it’s been a long time since we’ve seen much of the former, not since Fallon’s famous ‘Gorilla.’ Things may be about to change as it’s appointed VCCP as ...

Publicis boss Arthur Sadoun takes to Twitter today to answer questions from bemused/angry/brown-nosing Publicis employees about his decision to pull out of awards for a year to put the dosh into new AI assistant Marcel. But some people are there ...

Tom Dery is stepping down as worldwide chairman of M&C Saatchi Network after nine years. He will stay as chairman of M&C Saatchi Australia. Dery, a former client at Quantas and Ansett, founded the M&C business in Australia, Asia and ...

Is this big Cannes Lions winner: Too similar to this, from all of 32 years ago: The Cannes Lions Integrated* and Titanium jurors thought so even though Clemenger BBDO Melbourne’s ‘Meet Graham’ for the Transport Accident Commission of Victoria won ...

Cannes rounded off tonight with three big Grand Prix: Titanium (breaking the mould etc) for State Street Global Advisors’ ‘Fearless Girl, Integrated for Boost Mobile’s US voting campaign and, still the biggie although its status is under assault, Film for ...

WPP has come tops at Cannes today, named as the best performing holding company for the seventh year in succession. This despite boss Sir Martin Sorrell’s reservations about the festival (below), also highlighted by Publicis Groupe’s decision to pull out ...

Leo Burnett Chicago knocked the UK’s adam&eveDDB off its perch as the usual winner of the Cannes Creative Effectiveness Grand Prix this year with its ‘Van Gogh’ campaign for Airbnb and the Art Institute of Chicago which featured a lifesize ...

“Why do you need yet another panel on diversity when you have the Glass Lion?” observed an ECD out in Cannes this week who shall remain nameless. With sexist ads back in the news this week, it is a comment ...

Here’s WPP’s Sir Martin Sorrell talking about American football and great quarterbacks at this year’s Cannes Lions. No, me neither.